Impact of economic conditions on the secondary sex ratio in a post-communist economy

HOMO- Journal of Comparative Human Biology

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 218-227

  Zadzinska E ^a   Rosset, I ^a   Mikulec, A ^a   Domanski C ^a   Pawlowski B ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LODZ   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WROC AW   (Poland)

^c INSTITUTE OF ANTHROPOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; HISTORY; HUMAN; IDEOLOGY; MALE; NEWBORN; POLAND; POLITICAL SYSTEM; SEX RATIO; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

COMMUNISM; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MODELS, ECONOMIC; POLAND; POLITICAL SYSTEMS; SEX RATIO; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 79957965671     PISSN: 0018442X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jchb.2011.03.002     Document Type: Article

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